Theater

Review: ‘Topdog/Underdog’ Is the Sharpest Show on Broadway

BROTHERLY LOVE

This excellent 20th anniversary production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer history-making play features two superlative performances by Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen.

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Marc J. Franklin

Rare is the play that has an artfully designed interval, indeed a necessary, exciting thud of an interval. Plays—and their expectations of audiences’ posterior comfort and attention spans—are so scattered these days.

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